
Explore how the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and left and right brain regulate your nervous system to calm, recognize threat system activation, and preview simple models for thinking, feeling, and acting.
Embrace vulnerability by shedding the armor of perfection and the visor of certainty, cultivating curiosity, authentic connection, and calmer, more open responses in difficult moments.
Practice a guided self-care meditation to explore the connections that support you, inner and outer. Reflect on what you notice and how awareness fills your basket of calm with connection.
Keep filling your basket of calm with simple tools to support your emotional and physical well-being, feel calmer and less reactive, and imagine discomfort as a ball of discomfort.
Imagine uncomfortable feelings as a ball of energy in the body that signals danger and motivates safety; stay with the sensation with curiosity, let it pass, and respond with kindness.
Press pause in moments of difficulty to notice your body's alarm and amygdala. Create space between experience and reaction through breathing, counting to five, or calming imagery.
Cultivate a safe space for expressing thoughts and feelings, acknowledge your fears, and calm the amygdala, then pause to engage the prefrontal cortex for more empowered choices.
Engage in a three minute drama dump to write unedited thoughts about a difficult situation, then identify roles like victim, prosecutor, or rescuer and reflect on the emotions involved.
Practice mindful listening with a drama buddy to hold space for expressing thoughts and feelings with undivided attention, using drama dumping and reciprocal mindful listening.
Explore experience mapping to move from the drama zone of blame and shame to a learning zone of self responsibility, separating thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations to uncover constructive action.
Reflect on brain and mindful awareness, journal reflections on your learning, apply self-care tools, and learn from discomfort to strengthen relationships and daily life.
Coming to Calm is a course that introduces you to mindful tools that help to make you feel calmer and bring a greater sense of enjoyment to the things that you do.
I’ve created this video version of Coming to Calm because people who’ve attended the online live version have told me how much difference it’s made to their lives. They have described Coming to Calm as a deceptively simple approach that has helped them understand themselves better and feel more empowered.
They were able to put the tools they’d learnt into practice to help them pause and tune in to themselves and discover what’s needed for them to live well.
They noticed that:
- they now feel less stressed
- they are more joyful
- they are more appreciative of everyday things
- and their relationships with others have improved
The course is delivered in bite-sized, easy-to-follow chunks, with activities in each module to help you
- build understanding of yourself
- pause for breath, slow time down and bring care and attention to yourself
- listen to yourself in a way that brings fresh perspectives and helps reveal solutions to challenges you may face
- listen to others in a way that builds understanding between you.